I have installed VMplayer 2.5.3 on SLES10 SP1 and am trying to run a .vmx (Novell Teaming). Networking is apparently supposed to work 'out-of-the-box' but it doesn't. I suspect this is because of the 2 NICs installed on the host, one of which goes nowhere but another SLES 10 box (eth1). I have spent a lot of time on this.
My networking knowledge re bridging and routing is sketchy and my SLES 10 knowledge is fairly basic, and this is my first VMplayer installation. Can someone please tell me how the bridging between a virtual machine and the host is supposed to work and give me any clues as to why it doesn't in my case. I want to have the guest machine on 192.168.0.242 and for it to be part of the same subnet as the rest of the system (192.168.0.x). With just 'Bridged' selected in the VMplayer Network Adapter settings I get no communication at all. With connectiontype as 'custom' in the vmx and a vnet of vmnet1I was able to ping the guest from the host but not the other way around.
As I have said just general help on bridging, firewalls under Linux would also be useful. The vmx is fairly limited, e.g. there is no Yast and no SUSE* commands), making it harder for me. And the VMplayer docs are non-existent.
Here are the key settings. tlb-standby is the HOST and teaming is the GUEST.
Thanks in advance
HOST
tlb-standby:~ # ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1E:C9:33:C6:79
inet addr:192.168.0.241 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:34765250 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:34738943 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:5438619639 (5186.6 Mb) TX bytes:8859306055 (8448.8 Mb)
Interrupt:177
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:18:33:41:F1
inet addr:1.1.1.2 Bcast:1.1.1.3 Mask:255.255.255.252
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:185780 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:136465 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:38364366 (36.5 Mb) TX bytes:25174097 (24.0 Mb)
Interrupt:169
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:41815 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:41815 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4280259 (4.0 Mb) TX bytes:4280259 (4.0 Mb)
vmnet1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:C0:00:01
inet addr:192.168.0.243 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:20547 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3756 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
vmnet8 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:C0:00:08
inet addr:172.16.55.1 Bcast:172.16.55.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
tlb-standby:/opt # iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
tlb-standby:/opt #
GUEST
teaming:~ # ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:DE:FA:41
inet addr:192.168.0.242 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fede:fa41/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3169 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:686 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:732418 (715.2 Kb) TX bytes:33612 (32.8 Kb)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:17088 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:17088 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2701143 (2.5 Mb) TX bytes:2701143 (2.5 Mb)
teaming:~ # iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy DROP)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere
ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere state ESTABLISHED
ACCEPT icmp -- anywhere anywhere state RELATED
input_ext all -- anywhere anywhere
input_ext all -- anywhere anywhere
LOG all -- anywhere anywhere limit: avg 3/min burst 5 LOG level warning tcp-options ip-options prefix `SFW2-IN-ILL-TARGET '
DROP all -- anywhere anywhere
Chain FORWARD (policy DROP)
target prot opt source destination
LOG all -- anywhere anywhere limit: avg 3/min burst 5 LOG level warning tcp-options ip-options prefix `SFW2-FWD-ILL-ROUTING '
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere
ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere state NEW,RELATED,ESTABLISHED
LOG all -- anywhere anywhere limit: avg 3/min burst 5 LOG level warning tcp-options ip-options prefix `SFW2-OUT-ERROR '
Chain forward_ext (0 references)
target prot opt source destination
Chain input_ext (2 references)
target prot opt source destination
DROP all -- anywhere anywhere PKTTYPE = broadcast
ACCEPT icmp -- anywhere anywhere icmp source-quench
ACCEPT icmp -- anywhere anywhere icmp echo-request
LOG tcp -- anywhere anywhere limit: avg 3/min burst 5 tcp dpt:https flags:FIN,SYN,RST,ACK/SYN LOG level warning tcp-options ip-options prefix `SFW2-INext-ACC-TCP '
ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:https
LOG tcp -- anywhere anywhere limit: avg 3/min burst 5 tcp dpt:http flags:FIN,SYN,RST,ACK/SYN LOG level warning tcp-options ip-options prefix `SFW2-INext-ACC-TCP '
ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:http
LOG tcp -- anywhere anywhere limit: avg 3/min burst 5 tcp dpt:pcsync-https flags:FIN,SYN,RST,ACK/SYN LOG level warning tcp-options ip-options prefix `SFW2-INext-ACC-TCP '
ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:pcsync-https
LOG tcp -- anywhere anywhere limit: avg 3/min burst 5 tcp dpt:http-alt flags:FIN,SYN,RST,ACK/SYN LOG level warning tcp-options ip-options prefix `SFW2-INext-ACC-TCP '
ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:http-alt
LOG tcp -- anywhere anywhere limit: avg 3/min burst 5 tcp dpt:smtp flags:FIN,SYN,RST,ACK/SYN LOG level warning tcp-options ip-options prefix `SFW2-INext-ACC-TCP '
ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:smtp
LOG tcp -- anywhere anywhere limit: avg 3/min burst 5 tcp dpt:ms-v-worlds flags:FIN,SYN,RST,ACK/SYN LOG level warning tcp-options ip-options prefix `SFW2-INext-ACC-TCP '
ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ms-v-worlds
LOG tcp -- anywhere anywhere limit: avg 3/min burst 5 tcp dpt:ssh flags:FIN,SYN,RST,ACK/SYN LOG level warning tcp-options ip-options prefix `SFW2-INext-ACC-TCP '
ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ssh
reject_func tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ident state NEW
LOG all -- anywhere anywhere limit: avg 3/min burst 5 PKTTYPE = multicast LOG level warning tcp-options ip-options prefix `SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT '
DROP all -- anywhere anywhere PKTTYPE = multicast
LOG tcp -- anywhere anywhere limit: avg 3/min burst 5 tcp flags:FIN,SYN,RST,ACK/SYN LOG level warning tcp-options ip-options prefix `SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT '
LOG icmp -- anywhere anywhere limit: avg 3/min burst 5 LOG level warning tcp-options ip-options prefix `SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT '
LOG udp -- anywhere anywhere limit: avg 3/min burst 5 LOG level warning tcp-options ip-options prefix `SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT '
LOG all -- anywhere anywhere limit: avg 3/min burst 5 state INVALID LOG level warning tcp-options ip-options prefix `SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT-INV '
DROP all -- anywhere anywhere
Chain reject_func (1 references)
target prot opt source destination
REJECT tcp -- anywhere anywhere reject-with tcp-reset
REJECT udp -- anywhere anywhere reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
REJECT all -- anywhere anywhere reject-with icmp-proto-unreachable
teaming:~ #
It is clear from the replies :smileymischief: that networking is straightforward, transparent and it's only me that has any issues. I have found the solution to the network issue on SLES 10 SP1
1. Uninstall VmPlayer 2.5.3
2. Install Vmplayer 2.0.5
3. Run vmplayer-config.pl (that you now have)
4. Start vmplayer, select the image and watch in amazement as networking suddenly all works.